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title: _Parallels_.--The search for the Dark Tower is similar to that of th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--The search for the Dark Tower is similar to that of the Red Ettin, (_cf_. Who acts: search. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 9

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\_Parallels\_.--The search for the Dark Tower is similar to that of the Red Ettin, (\_cf\_.

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**Who acts:** search · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (search), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:71:9
# text = _Parallels_.--The search for the Dark Tower is similar to that of the Red Ettin, (_cf_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	_
10	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the search for the Dark Tower |  |  |  |  | to that; similar *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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